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Me Against the World
2Pac·Rating: 9.3
Every best-album list from the mid-nineties starts the same fight: does this belong at the top of 2Pac's catalog or second behind All Eyez? The argument usually splits along generational lines, but th...
Licensed to Ill
Beastie Boys·Rating: 8.7
Three Jewish kids from Manhattan convinced America that hip-hop could sell beer commercials and destroy frat house furniture in equal measure. That sentence alone explains why Licensed to Ill remains ...
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kanye West·Rating: 9.7
Remove this album from the timeline and half the rappers who dominated the next decade lose their blueprint. Nobody talks about the nine-month exile in Hawaii. Nobody mentions the thirty engineers cyc...
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Wu-Tang Clan
Enter the Wu‐Tang (36 Chambers)
Hip-Hop
Rating: 10.0
A Tribe Called Quest
The Low End Theory
Hip-Hop
Rating: 10.0
Nas
Illmatic
East Coast Hip-Hop
Rating: 10.0
Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp a Butterfly
Conscious Rap
Rating: 10.0
Public Enemy
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Conscious Rap
Rating: 10.0
The Notorious B.I.G.
Life After Death
Hip-Hop
Rating: 9.8
Madvillain
Madvillainy
Hip-Hop
Rating: 9.7
Kendrick Lamar
good kid, m.A.A.d city
Hip-Hop
Rating: 9.7
